LAC 28:CLV.311. Scholarship and Tuition Payments

A. School tuition organizations shall distribute scholarship payments on a quarterly basis each year as payments made out to a parent of a qualified student that are mailed to the qualifying school where the student is enrolled. The parent shall approve the payment for deposit into the account of the school. If the payment is made by check, the parent may endorse the check electronically. The parent shall not designate any entity or individual associated with the school as the parent's attorney to endorse a scholarship check. B. Upon receipt of notification from a qualified school that a student who has received a scholarship has ceased to be enrolled in the school, the school tuition organization shall cease making payments to the school for that student. C. The LDOE shall verify that each qualified student has received scholarships from school tuition organizations not to exceed the lesser of actual tuition and fees at the qualified school or 80 percent of the state average MFP per pupil funding amount for the previous year in the case of a qualified student enrolled in kindergarten-eighth grade, or 90 percent of the state average MFP per pupil funding amount for the previous year in the case of a qualified student enrolled in ninth-twelfth grade. If the total amount of scholarships received from school tuition organizations by a qualified student has exceeded one of these amounts, as applicable, the school tuition organization that awarded the scholarship that caused the student's total scholarship amount to exceed this amount shall refund the state the difference. D. The department shall verify that each student receiving a scholarship from a school tuition organization was not enrolled in a public school in Louisiana on October 1 or February 1 of the school year for which the student received the scholarship, pursuant to the definition of student membership established by the board.